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The first Bales for the year commenced 28th February. Total arrivals, 53,000 ba'es. Attendance of home buyers was good; prices opened at a greater decline limn was anticipated, particularly for…
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Farming & the land, 1861
8 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
Breeding Fat Cattle
Why is fat so honourable? What is it, that its production should be so encouraged ? Thrifty house-wives say it is sheer waste. Men who feed beasts for the butcher's knife…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Report
Notwithstanding the extreme quietness in our market since the March sales, and the general complaint from the manufacturing districts of the dullness of trade, the attendance of buyers up to the…
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JUNE.—The May sales dosed on the 6th June, with the same firmness and spirit manifested at the opening, and for good aud fine flock from all parts the competition was more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Report. July, 1861
The sales commenced on the 18th, the arrivals to that date consisting of 80,000. The Sales opened with a smaller attendance of buyers, both home mid foreign, than has been witnessed for a long time; and althrough the catalogue…
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The dulness which existed for the first four days of the sales gave way in a rather better feeling, in consequence of the satisfactory change in the weather for harvest operations; and, although there was little perceptible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' Column
WHEAT—EIGHTY BUSHELD TO THE ACRE.—S.P. Mason of walnut Creek. N. Y., teils the New Fork Tribune how he grew wheat at the rate of eighty bushels peracre. "He enclosed with boards an exact rod of dry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Column
CULTIVATION OF BARLEY.-A GENTLEMAN who has just returned from Victoria suggests that there if a profitable field of industry open to Tasmanians, if disposed to occupy it. He says that while we continue the present…
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